Contents Part 1. Introduction 1. What is reading? 2. How do we read? 3. Schema theory. 4. Efficient and inefficient reading 5. Re-conceptualizing education and reading 6. Reading and culture (s) and culture (s) of reading 7. Importance of classroom talk and discussion in the reading classroom. 8. Testing reading 9. The text and the reader 10. Focus on reading skills and reading comprehension Part 2. Reading with Strategies 1. Activating Prior Knowledge ^ Reading: Erasmus Programme. 2. Visualization Reading: The Electronic Village 3. Skimming and Scanning s» Reading: Melting Away 4. Inferring Reading: Is Turkey Losing Its Reform Zeal?. 5. Generalizing, the Main Idea and the Topic Sentence. Reading: Depression, Drugs, and Alcohol. 6. Summarizing Reading: Looking Back. 7. Concludin to Reading: A Critique of Traditional Educational Practices 8. Predicting to Reading: Introduction to Misogynism in Literature 9. Paraphrasing to Reading: Bette Midler: A Short Biography. 10. Deducing Facts From Opinion to Reading: The New Museum of Modern Art to Reading: Turkish Culture or Cultures Part 3. Additional Reading Texts 1. Leo 2. Showing off 3. Portrait of the Dancer by Alexander Sacharoff. 4. The Modern Welfare State.. 6. Ivory Coast: A Legacy of Stabilit